Word: sinyang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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South of General Chen, the Communist offensive was in the hands of shrewd, slippery General Liu Po-cheng, "the one-eyed dragon." Maneuvering down the rail line toward Hankow, Liu sent one column from his major force hell-for-leather down around Sinyang to feel out the railway defenses along the line south of the city. If Liu could cut the rail line, he would have Sinyang encircled and more than 100,000 Nationalist troops in the trap. Besides, by cutting the line he could link with other Communist forces to the south and threaten the Yangtze Valley from Hankow...
Little remained of that railway but the pitted roadbed; the rails had been removed by the cautious Chinese. But intelligence reports now showed that the Japanese had dismantled other, less useful railroads, had carted the rails to Sinyang-presumably to be used in retracking the wrecked sections...
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